Business Process Alignment for Successful IT Project Management : A Systematic and Holistic IT Project Management Approach for Commercial Software with Case Studies

ISBN-13: 9783639126310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str.

Theresa Kraft

Opis

Companies invest significant sums of money for major IT projects, yet success remains limited. Despite an abundance of IT Project Management (ITPM) resources, such as the PMI Body of Knowledge, IT standards and governance, a large percentage of IT projects continue to fail and ultimately get scrapped.The research approach involved the development of a systematic and holistic ITPM conceptual solution, which considers critical project management success factors including Business Process and IT Alignments, System Design, IT Architectural Foundations, Organizational Dynamics, IT Governance and Standards, and Software Vendor Responsiveness. The solution provides a method to evaluate the various critical success factors of a project, and their alignment with each other. The contribution of this research is summarized in terms of the design and development of the conceptual solution; and the development of a systematic methodology for successfully implementing the conceptual solution. This methodolog provides an increased potential for project success, and a project leader would be alerted of problems throughout the life of the project.

O autorze

Dr. Theresa Kraft is a highly effective, results-oriented
engineer and project manager with over twenty five years of
comprehensive leadership experience in Manufacturing Engineering
and Information Technology. She possess a solid expertise in IT
project management and software engineering leveraging a variety
of methodologies.